Example sentences of "could not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , as Duncanson points out , in the public services there was the principle that natives could not aspire to higher posts whatever their technical qualifications . |
| 2 | I could not speak to anyone , but when the bridge players saw me they threw down their cards and jumped up from the table . |
| 3 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 4 | This homunculus could not speak to him . |
| 5 | Each contributed much , but they did not often speak to each other , and indeed almost literally could not speak to each other . |
| 6 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 7 | He could not speak to them , though his mouth tried to . |
| 8 | The church was very full and although Amabel could not speak to everyone on her progress to the front pew she paused before taking her seat and smiled sweetly , generally , at the congregation , hoping that no one would feel left out . |
| 9 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 10 | What did emerge though was a personable and seemingly deeply caring young man , claiming not to understand why sportsmen could not go to South Africa but could go to India , which imported South African gold . |
| 11 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 12 | The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven . |
| 13 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 14 | I could not go to it but they showed it on television . |
| 15 | Lachlan was being left in charge of the castle , and Lady Marion could not go to the ceremony , for the baby was near its time . |
| 16 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 17 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 18 | Blanche could not go to the hospital herself . |
| 19 | She could not go to Adamus . |
| 20 | I could not go to the Hall earlier that day . ’ |
| 21 | He simply could not go to school . |
| 22 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 23 | We have met many A&R men but we felt we could not talk to most of them on any sensible basis , ’ says Gedge . |
| 24 | Cards could not talk to the divinator . |
| 25 | Those who could stand the pace flourished ; those who could not went to the wall . |
| 26 | Because they could not stand to be in the company of his wife , they rarely saw him . |
| 27 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 28 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 29 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 30 | Whereas it would have been possible to ask Harriet Finlay Johnson , ‘ What are you teaching this lesson ? ’ and the answer could easily be something like , ‘ The Spanish Armada ’ , one could not expect to be given an equivalent answer from Peter Slade , Brian Way or the Speech and Drama teachers . |